Tedda Howard focuses her telescope on Jupiter during the 30th Winter Star Party being staged at Scout Key, Fla. More than 500 amateur and professional astronomers are in the lower Florida Keys to observe southern constellations, stars and planets.

A handout picture made available by the Royal Observatory of Belgium shows a European Space Agency sun-watching Proba-Two mini-satellite image of the aftermath of the "coronal mass ejection." The image, acquired a little more than three hours after the initial eruption, demonstrates the sun's magnetic field reconnecting in the form of loops, down and left of the center of the solar disc to clearly see this distinctive belt of loops. Coronal mass ejections are powered by energy stored in the magnetic field of the sun's corona.

An Indian man moves out of the way of a leopard in the northern Indian city of Meerut. Forestry officials and police armed with tranquilizer darts searched for the leopard that injured six people in the northern Indian city, creating panic and driving people indoors.

An unidentified North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative's hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Korea. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea.

Georgia Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, escorted by U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, commanding general of the Army Military District of Washington, places his hand over his heart while attending a wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

Members of the mainly Christian "anti-balaka" (anti-machete) militia stand guard in the Boeing neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic. Two Chadian soldiers, three Muslim civilians and two Christian militiamen were killed in another weekend of violence in Bangui but France's top commander denied claims of ethnic cleansing.

Afghan members of civil society organizations light candles during a memorial ceremony for 21 Afghan National Army soldiers in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked army checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said, killing the soldiers in the deadliest single incident for the Afghan army in at least a year.

Firefighters spray their water cannon at protesters as the latter force their way closer to the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest the forthcoming visit of U.S. President Obama. The protesters were also calling for the pullout of U.S. troops in the country under the Visiting Forces Agreement, or VFA.

Demonstrators participate in a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Altamira, east of Caracas, Venezuela. Two more deaths bring the toll to 13 people killed and more than 150 injured in political violence that has gripped Venezuela since Feb. 12.

Ruling party supporters shout slogans as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes an address at the parliament in Ankara. Turkey's opposition party leaders on Tuesday asked Erdogan to resign and demanded an investigation into Erdogan, a day after the disclosure of audio recordings purportedly of him ordering his son to dispose of vast amounts of cash amid a corruption probe.

Pictures in the News | February 25, 2014

Tuesday’s Pictures in the News begins in San Diego, where visitors to Chicano Park view dozens of murals painted on the concrete stanchions leading to and from the Coronado Bridge.

Meerut, India: Forestry officials and police armed with tranquilizer darts searched for a leopard that injured six people in the northern Indian city, creating panic and driving people indoors.

Diamond Mountain, North Korea: An unidentified North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative’s hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Korea, the first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years.

Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan members of civil society organizations light candles during a memorial ceremony for 21 Afghan National Army soldiers killed after hundreds of heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked army checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday.

Caracas, Venezuela: Demonstrators participate in a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro; 13 people have died and more than 150 have been injured in the political violence that has gripped Venezuela since Feb. 12.

Add stops in Turkey, Ukraine, South Sudan and the Central African Republic to round out the report.